Designing effective supports for causal reasoning

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-308

  Jonassen, David H ^a   Ionas, Ioan Gelu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Causality; Instructional strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149143470     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-006-9021-6     Document Type: Article

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